animals

Illustration for the Folio Society Competition Brief based on the novel War Horse by Michael Morpurgo.

Created with a black fine line pen and brush pen

Watercolors on A5.

I love drawing series of things. This week's pick: owls.

Wild horses!

Part of a personal side project for an illustrated calendar of Literal Butterflies.

Page 2 of the literal butterfly calendar project

I've always loved drawing on various objects! This coffee-lid is from several years ago but I still love it and have it hanging on the bulletin board near my art desk.

Those puns couldn't be translate!

Nights of weird dreams captured in Ink

Or, forest goblins again…

As we head into the last month of summer…

Incoming narwhal and friends!

Axolotl time!

“Where would rock and roll be without feedback?” - David Gilmour. Hello August, and that ends another sketchbook… that was quick!

Adventurous narwhals? Looks like it!

Whales in strange lands, as per usual…

“We are all tourists. God is our travel agent who already set our routes, reservations, and destinations.” - Charlie Chaplin.

Today I’m tackling the elusive Tully Monster as a drawing subject! “It might be either a wormy type thing or a molluscy-like thing but for the most part, comprehensive taxonomies placed the monster in the animal kingdom untethered to any particular phylum, making it essentially unclassifiable. The perplexing nature of these fossils earned them the parochial nickname ‘Tully Monster’.”

Return of the seahorse and friends!

As it says!

Normal narwhals resume…

Hungry shark doodling…

First whale in the new sketchbook!

Couldn’t end the current sketchbook without a narwhal! And goblin critters too…

Could mean anything as per usual! From last week :-)

“We surrender. I think a lot of the art experience is about surrendering.” - Brian Eno.